EXERCISE 2. a) 

Practice more shading with your blending stump and 2 b, to try out the various gradients in this grid.

Draw up a rectangular grid, 3 x 6, like this one in your cartridge pad and try to create each example of a shaded gradient

2. b) Draw up a 4 x 6 rectangular grid, then draw some simple intersecting curved lines.

Here I just doodled in some letters to illustrate how I shaded in different directions against both drawings, the grid and the line drawing. You could draw an object or animal over a grid, and the grid does not need to be regular like this simple illustration.

Your shaded gradients in this exercise will give a result that will remind you a little bit of the early cubist works. (use your battery-operated eraser to clean up edges where needed). Portrait of Picasso but Jean Gris, 1912.